Got a little letter-- actually, a quite BIG one today, with a framed picture inside! The drawing is by Enrique's uncle, Edgar Herna...

A new installment HERE.

Two artists dominate my record collection. I’ve always thought they were more similar than different. Both rooted in the blues. ...

A little legalese to show just how far Mr. Berry's influence has spread.  Here, he and Ms. Mitchell are quoted gleefully by a rockin...

When Chuck Berry's Facebook page featured a picture of Chuck and Johnnie Johnson playing together one thing I noticed, besides the frien...

Here's a repost of a piece about Angus Young.  I post it again because a few days ago Angus Young won Guitar Player magazine's pla...

 Tracy A. Woodward, Washington Post  HERE's  a story from The Washington Post about Daryl Davis's show tonight at the Cart...

"People say ' Why don't you give it up?'  I can't retire till I croak.  I don't think they quite understand what...

Anyway, I always liked it when they were.

Chapter Three of my "book" , wherein our young hero enters a nearly empty hall and sees his future hero playing the blues, for s...

A great performance, an overmatched backup band.  Too bad, since it was filmed for posterity by Mr. Pennebaker.  But cool, anyway.

Read it HERE.

Chuck Berry inducting Willie Dixon into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  Dixon's wife and daughter give the acceptance speeches.

I'm finally reading Keith Richards' book Life and got to his wonderful description of Chuck Berry's performance in Jazz on ...

When I was a kid I wanted to promote a Chuck Berry show.  The rumor was that he charged about $2000 a show in the days before "My Din...

Thanks to Jan for this one.

Thanks to Peter K. for this video all about an amazing early poster. Here's a  link to Poster Central.

Can't agree with it all, but here's  a fine piece on Chuck Berry  by Bernard Perusse of The Windsor Star.

                                                               Picture by Alan White http://www.earlyblues.com/ I sent this more than tw...

Chuck Berry songs are often about geography and transportation. There are Fords, de Villes, Jaguars, trains, planes, Airmobiles, souped-up...

I was at the gym, pedaling furiously, getting steadily fatter, and watching a bank of silent television screens. On one, as usual, was L...

Looks like our friend Dominic!  (But I like the suit!)

How often has this happened? There’s no authoritative or complete listing of the shows he has performed in his 60 years as a professiona...

Someone calling him(her?) self Chucky Checkers is putting a slew of old Chuck Berry videos on YouTube.  Thank you Chubby!  And who are you? ...

And this much is clear: Jan, Peter K., Enrique, Dominic and Ida May are finding tons of NEW OLD THINGS on Yahoo.  Here's just one of the...

Thank you Doug for this clip from The Howard Theatre.  I love, around 18 seconds in, a few bars that sound like "Woodpecker," the ...